Letters and orations

Letters and orations

by Fidelis, Cassandra

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By the end of the fifteenth century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a learned middle-class woman of Venice, was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. A cultural icon in her own time, she regularly corresponded with the king of France, lords of Milan and Naples, the Borgia pope Alexander VI, and even maintained a ten-year epistolary exchange with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain that resulted in an invitation for her to join their court. Fedele's letters reveal th…

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  • Full title :Letters and orations / Cassandra Fedele ; edited and translated by Diana Robin

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By the end of the fifteenth century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a learned middle-class woman of Venice, was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. A cultural icon in her own time, she regularly corresponded with the king of France, lords of Milan and Naples, the Borgia pope Alexander VI, and even maintained a ten-year epistolary exchange with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain that resulted in an invitation for her to join their court. Fedele's letters reveal the central, mediating role she occupied in a community of scholars otherwise inaccessible to women. He.

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  • Publication Date:2000

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Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 181 pages) : portrait.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780226239330, 0226239330, 9780226239316, 0226239314
  • oclc:ocn704729201
  • Dewey Decimal:875/.04

Subjects

Fidelis, Cassandra

Writers

Fidelis, Cassandra Robin, Diana Maury

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